Dillijon: a heavy two-wheeled cart. This word's similarity to the French diligence is apparent. I have only heard it at Fullerton, a secluded spot in Hampshire.
Rattlemice:[3] bats.
Scug[4] (Hants): a squirrel. "Let's go scug-hunting" is a common phrase.
Yesses (Dorsetshire): earth-worms.
[3] [4] [The words thus marked will be found in Halliwell; where we also read Esses, large worms (Kent).—ED.]
UNICORN.
MACARONIC POETRY.
(Vol. v., p. 166.)
In the "Notes on Books" references are made to Mr. Sandys' Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, and to M. Octave Delepierre's Macaronéana. This latter work I have not yet seen, but if it does not contain the following specimen which I recollect reading many years ago in a costly work, Wild Sports of the East, but which I have not since seen, I think its insertion may amuse the readers of "N. & Q.":
"Arma virumque cano qui primo solebo peeping
Jam nunc cum tabbynox languet to button her eyelids